Effect of positive-negative image ratio on the performance of pedestrian detection model by Yee, Lai Kok, Ken, Tan Lit, Choo, Hau Sim, Asako, Yutaka, Lee, Kee Quen, Kang, Hooi Siang, Gan, Yee Siang, Chuan, Zunliang, Tey, Wah Yen, Nor Azwadi, Che Sidik

“…Pedestrian detection holds significant importance in computer vision, finding applications in video surveillance, human-computer interaction, and autonomous vehicles. …”
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The role of PTEN in human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells mediated tumor cells suppression. by Toh, Xin Yi.

“…With the observed 26.2% of cell enhancement in MSC/ ∆Gli36-shPTEN co-culture, findings from the loss- of- function assay had indicated that expression of PTEN could be correlated with MSC-mediated suppression. …”
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Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning by Qu, Xinghua

“…Although some achievements and interesting findings have been observed, existing adversarial attacks are deemed to be less realistic due to the extensive assumptions utilized, such as white-box policy access and full-state adversary setting. …”
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Presence of IgG antibodies is not a reliable marker of Toxoplasma gondii infection in feral mice by Lignereux, Louis, Tong, Wen Han, Tan, Sijie, Vyas, Ajai, O'handley, Ryan

“…Our findings indicate that serological studies should not be used to measure the level of exposure to T.gondii in feral house mice.…”
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E-Government Practices and Organizational Performance in Malaysia Local Governments by Husin, Rohana, Othman, Abdul Aziz, Othman, Zakirah, Baharom, Norashikin

“…Therefore, the study's findings conclude that the direct relationship is not significant. …”
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Examining the effects of relative advances in higher mobility roads over higher accessibility roads and income inequality on the relationship between car ownership and economic gro... by Poi, Alvin Wai Hoong, Law, Teik Hua, Hamid, Hussain, Mohd Jakarni, Fauzan, Ishak, Siti Zaharah, Ng, Choy Peng

“…The implications of these findings on private transportation policies relate to measures to control increased car ownership as well as to reduce road casualties.…”

Vision-language-model-based video quality assessment by Zhang, Erli

“…This work not only advances the state-of-the-art in VQA but also sets the stage for future research in evaluating and enhancing the quality of in-the-wild videos.…”
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The king of fruits by Thorogood, CJ, Ghazalli, MN, Siti‐Munirah, MY, Nikong, D, Kusuma, YWC, Sudarmono, S, Witono, JR

“…Here we review recent findings in the genus with a focus on Malaysia and Indonesia. …”

Reimagining the Singaporean dream : the rise of entrepreneurial pursuits amongst young adults by Chiang, Alicia Chor Hong, Ong, Chu Wen

“…As entrepreneurial scholars have traditionally analyzed the dearth of local entrepreneurship, this paper seeks to fill the research gap in light of the rising trend of startups and entrepreneurial intents among Singaporeans in recent years. …”
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Urban-rural communities attitudes and perceptions toward wildlife meat consumption in Bintulu, Sarawak by Thomas, Alexander, Mariapan, Manohar, Lim, Evelyn Ai Lin, Johari, Shazali

“…Among the wildlife meat, wild boar meat is the most preferred. The findings provide guidance towards developing successful strategies and actions to influence local communities towards sustainable use of wildlife for consumption.…”

Enhanced expression of codon optimized interferon gamma in CHO cells by Yusufi, Faraaz N. K., Yang, Yuansheng, Lee, Dong-Yup, Chung, Bevan Kai-Sheng, Mariati

“…Interestingly, the CC-optimized genes exhibited at least 13-fold increase in expression level compared to the wild-type IFN-γ while a maximum of 10-fold increase was observed for the ICU-optimized genes. …”
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Cost performace of road construction projects in Nigeria by Aligamhe, Victor Imohnikhe, Mustapa, Muzani, Patrick Ogbu, Chukwuemeka

“…Finally, findings show that 60% of federal highway projects in Nigeria experience very high cost overruns (of over 20 %), with their attendant effect on other project objectives.…”
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Gobo: A System for Exploring User Control of Invisible Algorithms in Social Media by Bhargava, Rahul, Chung, Anna, Gaikwad, Neil S, Hope, Alexis, Jen, Dennis, Rubinovitz, Jasmin, Saldías-Fuentes, Belén, Zuckerman, Ethan

“…Our initial findings suggest that Gobo has potential to provide an alternate design space to enhance control, transparency, and explainability in social media.…”
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‘Recover together, recover stronger’: an exploratory literature review on the recovery challenges of creative SMEs following the COVID-19 pandemic and proposed future recommendatio... by Akintola, Bolanle Maryam, Kumar, Anil, Chokshi, Hemakshi, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Agrawal, Rohit

“…Using the analysis from the selected articles as a guide, a framework was developed to address the recovery challenges alongside the recommended propositions. Findings: The findings from this paper suggest that a lack of synergy among four major categories (governmental, supply chain, organizational and stakeholders) contributes to recovery challenges within the field of research. …”
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Alternative credit scoring for the un(der)banked by Elrakabawy, S

“…I show that machine-learning yields substantial above chance probabilities in estimating credit risk, and I also manage to reduce the feature set dimensionality (i.e. credit request steps) by 96 percent at near-identical prediction performance, which translates to a quasi-single-question credit request. A major finding of my research constitutes a revelation of the relationship between homophily and credit risk, with loan applicants exhibiting similar credit risk profiles tending to be socially similar; a finding which I put to use by defining and testing various graph-theoretical structural social similarity metrics for their applicability to predict credit risk. …”

Estimating consumptive water use of rice in lowland paddy fields of Tanjung Karang, Malaysia by Abdullahi, Abubakar Sadiq

“…The mean values of ETcw for mid-season 2011 obtained from CROPWAT software were 4.6 mm/day, 4.8 mm/day and 3.6 mm/day for the first, mid and last stages of paddy growing season, respectively. …”
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Balancing institutional, social and cognitive factors: human resources professionals' involvement in executive remuneration governance by Shortland, Susan, Perkins, Stephen J.

“…Through interviews with senior HR professionals and focus groups involving mid-ranking HR professionals, the study identifies key themes, challenges and opportunities faced by HR in navigating the executive remuneration landscape. …”
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Sorptive properties of biofilm matrix for heavy metal sequestering by Elisa Tiaras

“…Despite polysaccharide quantification and protein quantification that did not indicate significant differences between the 4 strains, further findings from proteomics analysis may provide a greater insight to how Pel and Psl affect the biofilm.…”
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Application of COLD-PCR for improved detection of EGFR mutations in clinical samples. by Zhang, Zhi Xuan.

“…As such, this project was carried out to find out whether COLD-PCR would pick up low level mutant alleles that were missed by regular PCR. …”
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Influences of social tags choices on academic papers over time : a user centric approach. by Khasfariyati Razikin.

“…In each phase, they were instructed to fill in diaries with the aim to elicit the influences of their tag choices and their motivations for doing so quantitatively. …”
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